Crowd-Sourced Judging Platform with Bias Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing entertainment and athletic events face challenges in maintaining audience engagement and fairness in judging due to subjective scoring, lack of transparency, and potential biases among judges, which can lead to decreased viewer interest and sponsorship revenue.
Innovation Solution
An interactive, crowd-sourced judging and scoring platform that utilizes real-time polling, voting, and predictive analysis, allowing spectators to participate as judges through mobile devices, with an AI engine to analyze data for bias detection and provide more objective scoring.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional judge scoring is used, then the judging process is simple to operate, but the scoring lacks objectivity and transparency
Solution Approach 1:
The judging system is segmented into multiple independent judges, each providing individual scores. The system divides the overall evaluation into multiple discrete scoring instances that can be independently collected, analyzed, and aggregated, thereby improving objectivity through distributed judgment rather than centralized decision-making.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary computing platform that acts as a mediator between judges and the final scoring result. This intermediary collects scores from multiple judges, applies statistical analysis, detects potential biases, and generates an aggregated evaluation, thereby removing the need for direct judge-to-result connection and improving transparency.
2Measurement precision
If multiple judges are used for scoring, then the scoring objectivity improves, but the system complexity and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables continuous score submission from multiple judges simultaneously rather than sequentially. Judges can submit their evaluations in parallel, and the system continuously aggregates these scores in real-time, maintaining the useful action of score collection without interruption or delay, thereby reducing total judging time while maintaining fairness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces the mechanical process of manual score collection and aggregation with an automated computing system. The computing platform automatically collects scores, performs statistical analysis, detects biases, and generates results, substituting manual mechanical operations with automated digital processes that are both faster and more accurate.
3Productivity
If real-time scoring transparency is implemented, then audience engagement increases, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements real-time feedback by continuously displaying scoring information to the audience as judges submit their evaluations. The platform provides live updates on score submissions, aggregated results, and even bias detection outcomes, creating a feedback loop that keeps the audience engaged and informed throughout the judging process without requiring complex additional hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
The computing platform performs multiple functions simultaneously: it collects scores from judges, performs statistical analysis, detects potential biases, aggregates results, and provides real-time transparency to the audience. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional system, the platform achieves high audience engagement without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
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AI summary
Presented herein is an interactive platform for judging an activity by a participant in an event. The platform includes a client application program downloadable to a mobile device. The program may include a database storing a mobile device identifier (ID), a user ID, user information, and location data of the device. The application may further be configured to display one or more events of the activity as well as an input for receiving a score of the activity from the user. The platform may additionally include a server system connected with the client application programs via a communication network. The server system may be configured for receiving the mobile device ID, the user ID, the user information, and the location data for the client program, and may further be configured to receive the scores from the users, and to adjust the scores according to determined bias of the associated user.


